Re: How to create an installer from the Lilypond build tree?

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno sab 18 ago 2018 alle 21:44, Engraver 
<"partitura.org"@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> Hallo all,
>
> I have a (rooted) Android tablet, on which I run Linux Debian by 
> means of an app called Linux Deploy. The debian repositories for the 
> ARMv7 (or armhf) chipset only contain Lilypond 2.18.2. That served me 
> well for quite some time. However, the Edition Engraver requires at 
> least Lilypond 2.19.xx, so I decided to try and build Lilypond on my 
> tablet. I cloned the Lilypond source code and after several hours of 
> painstakingly apt-getting al required dependecies (and googling for 
> the correct packages names, since they're not always self-evident) 
> the build process succeeded.
> So I have now a Lilypond version 2.21.0 suitable for the armhf 
> architecture.
> Installing it was as simple as typing 'make install'. What I'd like 
> to know: is there a way to create an installer, so that I can run 
> that when something goes wrong with my current Linux installation? 
> And of course, if someone is interested in a recent Lilypond build 
> for armhf (though I suspect the possible user base is quite 
> small...), I'd love to share it. That is, if there is a way to create 
> an installer; it's not practical to zip/tar the build-tree and share 
> that.
>
> Regards,
> Auke

Hi Auke

I guess you are using Debian Jessie (oldstable)?
If you upgrade to Stretch and add the stretch-backports repository, 
you'll get 2.19.x versions. See here:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=lilypond